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Two leaves from a Blockbook Apocalypse, (Schreiber, Edition IV) [23] And the Beast which I saw was like unto a Leopard (top) And they worshipped the Dragon which gave power unto the Beast (bottom) [26] And he causeth all...to receive a mark in their right hand (top) And I looked, and lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion (bottom)
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German, circa 1465
Two leaves from a Blockbook Apocalypse, (Schreiber, Edition IV)
[23] And the Beast which I saw was like unto a Leopard (top)
And they worshipped the Dragon which gave power unto the Beast (bottom) [26] And he causeth all...to receive a mark in their right hand (top)
And I looked, and lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion (bottom)
woodcuts, printed in pale brown in the xylographic manner, with extensive hand-colouring in orange, yellow, green, brown, black, rose-pink and grey, sheet 26 watermark gothic p (cf Briquet 8594, Frankfurt 1460), sheet 23 with a paper loss at the upper left sheet edge, just into the text
each S. 275 x 205mm., B. 250 x 195mm.
Two leaves from a Blockbook Apocalypse, (Schreiber, Edition IV)
[23] And the Beast which I saw was like unto a Leopard (top)
And they worshipped the Dragon which gave power unto the Beast (bottom) [26] And he causeth all...to receive a mark in their right hand (top)
And I looked, and lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion (bottom)
woodcuts, printed in pale brown in the xylographic manner, with extensive hand-colouring in orange, yellow, green, brown, black, rose-pink and grey, sheet 26 watermark gothic p (cf Briquet 8594, Frankfurt 1460), sheet 23 with a paper loss at the upper left sheet edge, just into the text
each S. 275 x 205mm., B. 250 x 195mm.
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